Eckhart Tolle Quotes
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.
The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.
One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.
Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.
Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.
To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.
Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".
I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.
Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.
I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.
It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.
Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.
When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.
The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.
As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.
When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.
To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.
Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.
Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.
If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.
Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.
When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.
Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.
So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.
Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.